The Role of
Human Nature in Defeating Logical Organization
During the last quarter of the twentieth century there
developed a growing interest in the paradoxical nature of the presumably
rational bureaucratic hierarchy where workplace reality many times does not
appear to be operating in any kind of logical manner. Those who have studied
this aspect of organizational reality have come to appreciate that severe
organizational dysfunction is introduced into the rational workplace by the
irrational side of human nature (Blau and Meyer, 1956). This irrationality, it
is also thought, is encouraged by the features of the bureaucratic hierarchy. In
this regard bureaucratic hierarchy contains within it elements that destabilize
it thereby encouraging change. To more fully appreciate this aspect of worklife,
the psychodynamic workplace must be inspected.
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